You can use this event to perform tasks when a panel within a StatusBar control is clicked. The data provided to the event through the StatusBarPanelClickEventArgs passed as a parameter to the event handler enables you to determine the StatusBarPanel that was clicked by the user in order to perform tasks on the selected panel.

internal System.Windows.Forms.StatusBar statusBar1;
privatevoid InitializeStatusBarPanels()
{
// Create a StatusBar control.
statusBar1 = new StatusBar();
// Dock the status bar at the top of the form.
statusBar1.Dock = DockStyle.Top;
// Set the SizingGrip property to false so the user cannot // resize the status bar.
statusBar1.SizingGrip = false;
// Associate the event-handling method with the // PanelClick event.
statusBar1.PanelClick +=
new StatusBarPanelClickEventHandler(statusBar1_PanelClick);
// Create two StatusBarPanel objects to display in statusBar1.
StatusBarPanel panel1 = new StatusBarPanel();
StatusBarPanel panel2 = new StatusBarPanel();
// Set the width of panel2 explicitly and set// panel1 to fill in the remaining space.
panel2.Width = 80;
panel1.AutoSize = StatusBarPanelAutoSize.Spring;
// Set the text alignment within each panel.
panel1.Alignment = HorizontalAlignment.Left;
panel2.Alignment = HorizontalAlignment.Right;
// Display the first panel without a border and the second// with a raised border.
panel1.BorderStyle = StatusBarPanelBorderStyle.None;
panel2.BorderStyle = StatusBarPanelBorderStyle.Raised;
// Set the text of the panels. The panel1 object is reserved// for line numbers, while panel2 is set to the current time.
panel1.Text = "Reserved for important information.";
panel2.Text = System.DateTime.Now.ToShortTimeString();
// Set a tooltip for panel2
panel2.ToolTipText = "Click time to display seconds";
// Display panels in statusBar1 and add them to the// status bar's StatusBarPanelCollection.
statusBar1.ShowPanels = true;
statusBar1.Panels.Add(panel1);
statusBar1.Panels.Add(panel2);
// Add the StatusBar to the form.this.Controls.Add(statusBar1);
}
// If the user clicks the status bar, check the text of the // StatusBarPanel. If the text equals a short time string,// change it to long time display.privatevoid statusBar1_PanelClick(object sender,
StatusBarPanelClickEventArgs e)
{
if (e.StatusBarPanel.Text ==
System.DateTime.Now.ToShortTimeString())
{
e.StatusBarPanel.Text =
System.DateTime.Now.ToLongTimeString();
}
}